Live Play Data

Commandeer

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

702

Decks Running

292

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=95

13%

14%

51%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 64% (15 / 95 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

702 brought · 282 players

Brought to game

702

Ever drawn

205

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=81) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=397).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 46% (n=104).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -3.4pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

240 instances

3.3%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

15.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 35 decks
2 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 23 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 17 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks
5 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 14 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 13 decks
7 Urza, Lord High Artificer 12 decks
8 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 9 decks
9 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 7 decks
10 Marneus Calgar 7 decks

Card text

Commandeer

Instant

You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters under your control.)

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by John Matson

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.